Aryan Nations

Aryan Nations is a white supremacist religious organization based in Hayden, Idaho, founded in 1970 by Richard Girnt Butler. The organization followed the neo-fascist "Christian Identity" movement, which preached that only white people were the descendants of the ancient Israelites, that Europeans were the "chosen people", and that the Jews were the cursed descendants of Cain. The RAND Corporation claimed that the Aryan Nations was the first truly nationwide terrorist network in the United States, and associates of the group engaged in murder, arson, armed robbery, theft counterfeiting, and extortion, including the Los Angeles Jewish Community Center shooting of 1999, which killed one person and wounded 5.